On 2024/06/03 10:05, Chris Bennett wrote: > I noticed that the Perl modules don't have any man pages. They can be > read by perldoc, but man pages would be nice. > I don't know if that is desired. > Also, I searched code, but I couldn't find how Perl pods are made into > man pages during porting.
Normally they're processed in the upstream Makefiles, but fvwm3 didn't do that. Still, you could add a post-install target to do this. > Another problem I noticed is that the man pages contain examples that > don't match the names of the commands that have been altered with the 3 > at the end of the filenames. > For example, FvwmCommand is in a man page, but it really needs to be > FvwmCommand3 to use it. > So cut and paste won't work. That might be a real head scratcher. > > Is fixing that worth the effort? Or adding a README mentioning the need > to watch out for that a better option? Patching that in the manpages would be better I think.
